טו ואזדו לטעמייהו דאיתמר המוכר שדהו
15 and makes the recital! — Resh Lakish rejoined: There is a special reason there,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Why the firstfruits are brought by one who does not own the soil. ');"><sup>14</sup></span> because the text says 'his house'.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The Torah has made a special exception in the case of the wife's produce. ');"><sup>15</sup></span> According to another report, Resh Lakish raised an objection against R. Johanan [by quoting to him]: 'And to thy house:' this shows that a man brings the firstfruits of his wife and makes the recital. This, [continued Resh Lakish,] is the rule in the case of the wife, because the text says and to thy house, but in other cases not! — R. Johanan replied: I derive my reason also from the same verse.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., R. Johanan takes the case of the wife as being not exceptional but typical. ');"><sup>16</sup></span> He [then] raised an objection [from the following]: 'If while he was on the road bringing the firstfruits of his wife he heard that his wife had died, he brings them and makes the recital,' which means, [I take it], that if she did not die he does not make the recital?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Presumably because his relation to the field is still that of purchaser. ');"><sup>17</sup></span> — No, [he replied]; the rule is the same even if she did not die, but it had to be stated also in regard to the case of her dying, [for this reason]. It might have occurred to us that [in this case] we should as a precaution prohibit [the husband from reciting] on account of the ruling of R. Jose b. Hanina who laid down that if a man gathered his grapes and commissioned another man to bring them [to Jerusalem] and the person commissioned died on the way, he [himself] brings them but does not make the recital, because it says, and thou shalt take …<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Deut. XXVI, 2 and 10. ');"><sup>18</sup></span> and thou shalt bring,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' This is implied in the text, which thou shalt bring (ibid) cf. verse 10. ');"><sup>19</sup></span> which implies that the taking and the bringing must be performed by the same person.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And here the husband having in the interval been transformed from a purchaser into an heir is in a way no longer the same person. ');"><sup>20</sup></span> We are therefore told [that we do not take this precaution]. R. Johanan and Resh Lakish are herein true to their own principles, as stated elsewhere: If a man sells his field